Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on July 21, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

If you wonder what’s wrong with Obamanomics, this passage from Barack Obama’s second press conference on the debt-ceiling debate should explain it, emphasis mine:

So my general view is that if the American people looked at this, they’d say, boy, some of these decisions are tough, but they don’t require us to gut Medicare or Social Security. They don’t require us to stop helping young people go to college. They don’t require us to stop helping families who’ve got a disabled child. They don’t require us to violate our obligations to our veterans. And they don’t require “job-killing tax cuts.” [sic]

Does Barack Obama believe that tax cuts kill jobs? It seems so, because the passage doesn’t make sense if “cuts” is replaced by “hikes.” Obama is arguing for tax hikes, not against them. The Washington Times’s Joseph Curl notes that even the White House staff couldn’t make much sense of this:

A statement President Obama made halfway through his news conference last week was so unfathomable, so utterly incomprehensible, that befuddled White House stenographers simply gave up and tacked a “[sic]” next to it.

Maybe we should put a [sic] next to every economic policy coming out of the White House. It certainly describes the resulting American economy 30 months into the Obama presidency.

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A statement President Obama made halfway through his news conference last week was so unfathomable, so utterly incomprehensible, that befuddled White House stenographers simply gave up and tacked a “[sic]” next to it.

but they don’t require us to gut Medicare or Social Security. They don’t require us to stop helping young people go to college. They don’t require us to stop helping families who’ve got a disabled child. They don’t require us to violate our obligations to our veterans. And they don’t require “job-killing tax cuts.”

I noticed that, too, when he said it in that Presser. I hoped it was him having had early martinis or perhaps a big piece of that layer cake he spoke rhapsodical about.

A statement President Obama made halfway through his news conference last week was so unfathomable, so utterly incomprehensible, that befuddled White House stenographers simply gave up and tacked a “[sic]” next to it.

Ed, haven’t you been around any young people lately? They’ve replaced “cool” with “sick.” I thought it ended in a K, but maybe I was wrong. So, if we translate this to seventies language, it looks like this:

Only Obama has the wisdom, the vision, the gift to turn America into a near-perfect utopian society where all are equal, there are no wars, everybody has the same, everyone is healthy, clean energy rules, and the Constitution is amended to allow Obama to serve three, four, as many terms as he wishes, as He has been designated Field Marshall Learned Doctor, Lightgiver and President for Life.

Nothing to worry about…it is all perfectly logical from Obama’s perspective, the only perspective that matters…right?

….his smug mug in that big winter coat off to the side of the lecturn as is the place for outgoing President and first lady. Watching as the new President is sworn in. The oath is administered and Obama leaves the stage happy as a “ONE TERM PRESIDENT“.

Ed, haven’t you been around any young people lately? They’ve replaced “cool” with “sick.” I thought it ended in a K, but maybe I was wrong. So, if we translate this to seventies language, it looks like this:

And they don’t require “job-killing tax cuts.” [cool]
Kafir on July 21, 2011 at 8:24 AM

I think the term they use now is ‘dope’ which is why the WH stens resorted back to sick.
And they don’t require “job-killing tax cuts.” [cool] [dope]

….his smug mug in that big winter coat off to the side of the lecturn as is the place for outgoing President and first lady. Watching as the new President is sworn in. The oath is administered and Obama leaves the stage happy as a “ONE TERM PRESIDENT“.

Not an error. He cannot imagine in his Trotsky-ite cerebrum that jobs come via any mechanism other than government largesse. So from his worldview, tax cuts make it less possible for the government to “create” a job (probably thinking of his next Czar position).

Q.E.D.

The mean old GOP and those gun-happy, bible-thumping grandma-haters would rather help Warren Buffett (oops, he’s on my side) Bill Gates (wait, he’s one of us) Ted Turner (hrrmmm!) Corporate Jet Owners™!

PappyD61 @8:25
I’m torn between staying dignified at the swearing in of the new President in 2013, and giving Zero and the wife their own version of the Goodbye song that Bush was serenaded with in 2009. Ah, what the hell.. Everybody Sing !!

Pretty consistent of him actually. Quite obviously the only jobs that count in his mind are the ones “created or saved” by no tax cuts: government jobs.

He’s been acting like this since Day One anyway – just making it more explicit now I guess.

inviolet on July 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM

inviolet said it first. That was my first thought on reading it too. I hadn’t seen it before, because life is too short to listen to Barry bloviate.

Seriously, I have never understood the widely held opinion that Barry is a great orator; he is very, very average. I listened to him a couple of times back in the day when tingles were running up Missy Chrissy’s leg. I wasn’t impressed by the content or the delivery. The content was largely logic-free and factually challenged, and the delivery was as melodramatic as a soap opera. It doesn’t matter how sharp the crease in his pants, how high the fake columns, how flowery the phrasing, or how many twits are swooning in the audience, if you don’t have something of value to say it is just a blast of hot air that might as well have emerged from the opposite end of the alimentary canal.

Unless, of course, you are a Democrat, or among the seventh-grade intellects Axelrod and ad writers typically target. (These groups have significant overlap.) For these groups, parroting party-line pap is sufficient.

If you want to hear a great public speaker, listen to just about any of Winston Churchill’s recorded speeches. There was a man who could communicate a message. He didn’t need big words to convey big ideas, and he didn’t assume his audience was ignorant or stupid or both.

I could forgive, and forget if I believed Obama was just a moron. A bumbling idiot who’s in over his head…but he’s not. He’s doing everything….EVERYTHING with intent. He wants this nation destroyed. The worst part is, he has help in doing it, and I do believe that these people are morons, for believing he really wants to help them, and others. Think again. Think about it. Think about all he’s done, and then ask yourselves….am I or anyone else REALLY better off now?

And keep in mind….418,000 first time job losses from last week. Really? Is this helping America, or helping Dems keep more people dependent on government checks?

Anyone that helps and supports this, should be ashamed of themselves. Yes! You too Mr. Hanks.

PappyD61 @8:25
I’m torn between staying dignified at the swearing in of the new President in 2013, and giving Zero and the wife their own version of the Goodbye song that Bush was serenaded with in 2009. Ah, what the hell.. Everybody Sing !!

….his smug mug in that big winter coat off to the side of the lecturn as is the place for outgoing President and first lady. Watching as the new President is sworn in. The oath is administered and Obama leaves the stage happy as a “ONE TERM PRESIDENT“.

PappyD61 on July 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM

He’s such a petulant little priss that I assume he will refuse to attend the swearing-in. M’chell sure as h won’t.

Seriously, I have never understood the widely held opinion that Barry is a great orator; he is very, very average.
novaculus on July 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM

He’s not a great orator, he is a decent reader of speeches that he could not write if his life depended on it. In the after-White House, he could make a living narrating PBS specials as long as the script has pronunciation hints.